White Trash Quotes

• I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

  Eminem

  White, Glitter, Glamour

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• I'm really white trash.

  George Clooney

  White, Trash

  Entertainment Weekly Interview, December 9, 1994.

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• I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Years, White, News

  "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

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• The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Tkam, Squares

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Believe, Black And White, Long

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• You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

  Anthony Hopkins

  White, Agents, Lambs

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• Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Cake, White, Social Taboos

  Song: Everlasting Cocksucker

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• I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

  Reba McEntire

  Names, White, Might

  Song: Fancy, Album: Rumor Has It, 1990

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• As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

  Harper Lee

  Respect, Black And White, Men

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

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• I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.

  Taryn Manning

  Beautiful, Mother, Home

  Source: m.etonline.com

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• There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

  Dolly Parton

  White, House, Trash

  "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Dolly Parton" by Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2014.

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• If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

  Jim Goad

  Lynching, Talking, White

  Jim Goad (1998). “The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

  Scott Weiland

  Pigs, White, People

  Song: Divider, Album: 12 Bar Blues

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• [My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

  Carrie Fisher

  Texas, White, Grandparent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white people - not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

  Phil Robertson

  Eye, Godly, White

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Home, Ignorance

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

  Lucas Till

  Real, Night, White

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field … They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’ - not a word!

  Phil Robertson

  White, People, Black

  "What the Duck?". www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

  Bob Hawke

  White, Australia, Yew

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

  Steve Young

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• [Let's talk about] Donald Trump. What does he represent in the American mind and in the European mind? He represents American white trash, [which Hillary Clinton called] 'deplorable and irredeemable'. It means from an establishment or educated cosmopolitan, urbane perspective, these people are like the red necks, and you can never deal with them.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, White, People

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Class, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

  James Ellroy

  Sexy, Mother, Father

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

  Steve Young

  Country, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• I was just thinking about how my grandparents, who raised me, would be considered "white trash," whatever that means - mostly for being racists, I'd say. And how, as a child, I wanted to be like them, and identified with them culturally.

  Shane McCrae

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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